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Tony Harrison full programme

19/03/1999

Full South Bank Show programme on Tony Harrison. Interview with Tony Harrison. Featuring extensive material on Harrison's 'Prometheus'. Includes excerpts of Harrison reading 'THEM & [uz]', 'Bringing U...

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Interview with Zaha Hadid

2007

On a rooftop on the south bank of the Thames near to Waterloo Bridge, looking over the river to the embankment. Hadid discusses two of her paintings of London, the city's landscape and redevelopment p...

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Interview with Zaha Hadid

2007

Footage of Leicester Square, London, daytime. Zaha Hadid talking about London's lack of civic space, her previous designs for Leicester Square, artistic integrity, the future. Zaha Hadid on a rooftop ...

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Ben Elton clips

16/10/2000

Excerpts from earlier South Bank Show episode on Ben Elton, with interview footage, clips of his stand up comedy, episodes of The Young Ones, Filthy Rich and Catflap, Blackadder.

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Interview with Ben Elton, shots of London from a taxi

17/07/2000

Elton talks about development and rehearsals for The Beautiful Game, working collaboratively, editing, changes to the show's ending, politics in Northern Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement. Ben Elt...

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Melvyn Bragg interviews Carol Ann Duffy

2009

Duffy talks about the UK poetry community, the value of poetry, being poet laureate, lgbt rights, being a public figure (camera on Bragg). Bragg brief PTC at end of recording, telling viewers that th...

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Interview with Nicholas Hytner

17/01/2003

Hytner discusses His Dark Materials, storytelling, the National Theatre staging Pullman's work, teenage audiences, dealing with spiritual themes, organised religion and morality, comparisons with CS L...

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Melvyn Bragg interviews Kevin Spacey

10/09/2007

Discusses the work of playwright Eugene O'Neill; writers, performance and audiences, naming his film company, coming to The Old Vic, his appointment as artistic director, the role of arts and culture,...

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Courtney Pine interviews his grandmothe

05/09/2000

r, talking about when he first went to Jamaica as a child, his son Jamal, his mother moving to England, changes in Mavis Bank, various family members. Interview with Courtney Pine in Jamaica. Talking ...

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Midhurst

2004

Exterior shots of a greengrocer's shop on Midhurst's West Street as the proprietor opens up for the day, customers arrive and make purchases. Shots of town and surrounding countryside, taken from high...

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Ruth Rendell and George Baker in Midhurst

10/08/2004

Interview with Ruth Rendell in Midhurst churchyard, talking about Inspector Wexford, Simisola, Road Rage, Harm Done; writing, psychology, George Baker. Rendell outside the church of St Mary Magdalene ...

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Los Angeles after Sinatra's death

1998

TV crews and security outside large gate to Sinatra's house in Beverly Hills Los Angeles, as gate is opened and closed to allow several cars through. People arrive to leave floral tributes, short inte...

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